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Watch enough football games on TV and you’re bound, at some point, to see an analyst accidentally draw what looks like a very private part of the male anatomy on the telestrator.
It happens. Right, Booger McFarland? I said, right?
Fox NFL analyst Greg Olson knows this. And he doesn’t want to fall victim to it.
“I mean I’ve made plenty of stupid comments, plenty of mistakes, call the guy the wrong name, have the wrong time outs,” Greg Olsen said on Pardon My Take this week. “You know it happened to the guy who called the the ending of that that great game the other night, Karl Ravech.
“Like, it’s easy to laugh at the guy and it’s easy to poke fun and yeah, like, you’re calling the College World Series, it was like Old Dominion or something. It’s easy to to knock the guy and go, ‘how do you mess that up in the moment,’ sometimes when things are going fast I’m like, man, I put myself in that position.”
Actually it was Oral Roberts, not Old Dominion. And it was four weeks ago. Close though.
“There were times where I’m trying to make a point and I’m like, ‘no, that wasn’t Patrick Mahomes, that was when Jalen Hurts had the ball that whole sequence,’ and you like have the entire wrong team sequence of events that was the Chiefs and you were talking about it like it was the Eagles, right?
“Like, it can happen to anybody and I believe in karma, so I’m like, I’m not re-sharing that. I’m pretending like I never saw it. I’m not putting that up to the gods that they one day put me in Karl Ravetch’s shoes
“But I’ve messed up a million things and drawn the wrong picture,” Olsen continued. “That’s tough. There’s so many things in NFL football that look like penises. And there’s a lot of very questionable verbiage that’s used in NFL football. ‘Come inside.’ There’s a lot of stuff that you gotta be careful. And I’m not gonna lie, there’s times where I’m like, ‘Here’s a safety, here’s a safety’ and you want to show that third little zone and you’re like, nope! Delete. Clear screen. I’m not gonna be the d*** guy.”
There is now a 100 percent chance that the first game Greg Olson does this upcoming NFL season for Fox, Twitter will be all over this looking for it to happen.